easiest image backup system?

"VanguardLH" wrote in message
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Like you said, get the kid his own computer. It's the easiest way to
preserve your own. When the kid starts to shave, get him his own
razor
or shaver, too. Regardless that the kids grows to the same size as
the
parent, don't share underwear.

lol. Now you tell me! I could've had my own underwear all those
years?! slaps head

In message , Anthony
Buckland writes:
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me several times. A backup isn't much use except
to make you feel (falsely) safer, unless it can
actually be used to restore. An online backup may

I've been saying that for years, nice to see someone else saying it!
Not that a lot of backup solutions _don't_ have the necessary ability,
but few people when discussing the merits of this or that backup
system/method/whatever actually mention the need to be able to restore a
non-working (as in non-booting) system for it to be any great use.
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Making your own image and saving it locally, along
with having an emergency CD created by the backup
program, will let you restore the whole shebang
efficiently, as in, for the cases I've done, about
half a morning.

That said, no backup system will work unless you
put the minimum effort into learning how to do it
plus actually making a habit of doing it. So even

Also very true!

an "easy" backup requiring time and effort to do
a restoration is better than no backup at all.

There's nothing that so gels in one's brain the
importance of backing up, as that first experience
of having just "lost everything" and having to try
to get it back. The effort of having generated
a usable backup suddenly sinks to utter triviality
compared to the horror you face.

(-:
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J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Would you like to go to the moon? I'd love to have gone. You'd need a very
massive rocket to launch me, of course. But I had no chance - I was the wrong
age, the wrong nationality ... Patrick Moore, in Radio Times 3-9 February 2007.

In message , VanguardLH
writes:
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Like you said, get the kid his own computer. It's the easiest way to
preserve your own. When the kid starts to shave, get him his own razor
or shaver, too. Regardless that the kids grows to the same size as the
parent, don't share underwear.
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Great! Gone straight into my quotes file (with attribution).
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Would you like to go to the moon? I'd love to have gone. You'd need a very
massive rocket to launch me, of course. But I had no chance - I was the wrong
age, the wrong nationality ... Patrick Moore, in Radio Times 3-9 February 2007.

On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:44:12 -0700, Anthony Buckland
wrote:

On 17/06/2012 3:43 PM, Mike S wrote:
What is the easiest software available for backing up and restoring a
working valid XP installation? My dentist doesn't want to learn a lot
but he would like an easy way to restore his system after his young son
corrupts it with viruses, games, bad configurations, etc. He's not too
technical when it comes to computers, so I was wondering if anyone knew
of a very straightforward software that would allow him to restore his
system, even when it wasn't booting.

After I responded to Ken Blake's posting, I went back to read this
original posting again. A dentist who doesn't want to learn a lot?
These people went through a healthcare doctoral education, which
involves learning a monster feces-load, fast. A dentist who thinks
it a kind of routine chore to restore a computer messed up by his
offspring? There's some kind of parental skills problem here. As
in, don't let this particular son at the parental computer at all.
A dentist should, failing horrible family financial problems I don't
know about, have way enough funds to buy the son a computer of the
son's own, accompanied by the message that if it gets messed up the son
can learn how to get it fixed himself or do without.

I sincerely hope he's better with teeth and gums. Maybe he's found
that doing great dentistry requires for him total concentration of
his mental resources, and if so I could only praise him for acting
on that finding.



I don't see it the way you do at all. We are all the way he is in one
respect or another. We all have different interests and different
likes and dislikes. We want to learn all we can about X, but nothing
or as little as possible about Y. The difference between us is what we
consider to be X and what we consider to be Y.

As a single example of what I mean, I have a friend who knows almost
everything there is to know about the local plants here, but next to
nothing about her computer. When I want to know something about a
plant, I ask her; when she has a computer problem or question, she
asks me.

I would not fear a dentist who has no interest in computers.

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
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I would not fear a dentist who has no interest in computers.

I WOULD fear a dentist who keeps texting in the middle of my treatment!
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Glen Ventura
MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
CompTIA A+

On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 12:20:15 -0400, "glee"
wrote:

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
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I would not fear a dentist who has no interest in computers.

I WOULD fear a dentist who keeps texting in the middle of my treatment!


Ugh! For sure!

Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

On 23/06/2012 9:20 AM, glee wrote:
"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote in message
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I would not fear a dentist who has no interest in computers.

I WOULD fear a dentist who keeps texting in the middle of my treatment!

Particularly if he keeps trying to find out whether it's safe.